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Diagonally vs Baldric - What's the difference?

diagonally | baldric |

As an adverb diagonally

is in a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.

As a noun baldric is

a belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip.

diagonally

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

    baldric

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip.
  • * 1833 , Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott :
    • As he rode down to Camelot:/And from his blazon'd baldric slung/A mighty silver bugle hung,/And as he rode his armor rung/Beside remote Shalott.
  • * 1922 , Author, The Museum Journal, Vol. XIII , The University Museum, page 168:
    • The figure on the left, holding the severed head of the ox, has removed his sword with the baldric from which it is suspended and given it to his companion, who holds it beside his own with the baldric swinging.
  • * 1998 , Raymond E. Fiest, Krondor, the Betrayal , HarperCollins, page 16:
    • The man facing Locklear had his head covered with a red bandanna, and over his shoulder was a baldric from which a cutlass at had hung.